ed, when a girl is just dying for to have him. You always
like me to be with you Herman. I don't see why you say you don't
want a girl to be all the time around you. You always been good to me
Herman, and I know you always be good to that Lena, and you soon feel
just like as if she had always been there with you. Don't act like as
if you wasn't a nice strong man, Herman. Really I laugh at you Herman,
but you know I like awful well to see you real happy. You go home and
get married to that Lena, Herman. She is a real pretty girl and real
nice and good and quiet and she make my brother Herman very happy. You
just stop your fussing now with Herman, papa. He go with you to-morrow
papa, and you see he like it so much to be married, he make everybody
laugh just to see him be so happy. Really truly, that's the way
it will be with you Herman. You just listen to me what I tell you
Herman." And so his sister laughed at him and reassured him, and his
father kept on telling what the mother always said about her Herman,
and he coaxed him and Herman never said anything in answer, and his
sister packed his things up and was very cheerful with him, and she
kissed him, and then she laughed and then she kissed him, and his
father went and bought the tickets for the train, and at last late on
Sunday he brought Herman back to Bridgepoint with him.

It was always very hard to keep Mrs. Kreder from saying what she
thought, to her Herman, but her daughter had written her a letter, so
as to warn her not to say anything about what he had been doing, to
him, and her husband came in with Herman and said, "Here we are come
home mama, Herman and me, and we are very tired it was so crowded
coming," and then he whispered to her. "You be good to Herman, mama,
he didn't mean to make us so much trouble," and so old Mrs. Kreder,
held in what she felt was so strong in her to say to her Herman. She
just said very stiffly to him, "I'm glad to see you come home to-day,
Herman." Then she went to arrange it all with Mrs. Haydon.

Herman was now again just like he always had been, sullen and very
good, and very quiet, and always ready to do whatever his mother and
his father wanted. Tuesday morning came, Herman got his new clothes
on and went with his father and his mother to stand up for an hour and
get married. Lena was there in her new dress, and her hat with all
the pretty flowers, and she was very nervous for now she knew she was
really very soon to be ma